Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, September 30. Also check out Stephen Colbert mocking “aging clown without makeup” Gary Johnson. “I think that park bench is where Gary Johnson lives.” “It doesn’t get much better when you CAN understand him.” LOL

Trump Foundation lacks certification needed to raise funds (“The foundation — sustained for years by donors outside the Trump family — never obtained the registration that New York requires to solicit money from the public, state officials said. Charities as large as Trump’s must also submit to an annual audit that asks, among other things, whether the charity spent funds for the personal benefit of its officers.” Again, why is Trump not being prosecuted for his many apparent violations of the law over the years???)

Trump ignores advice and launches Bill Clinton attack (“Refusing to end an insult-driven campaign, the Republican tries to tar Hillary Clinton with her husband’s infidelity.” Trump, who himself has had MANY affairs and is a notorious womanizer, misogynist, etc??? You can’t make this crap up!)

Paul Krugman: How the Clinton-Trump Race Got Close (“Part of the answer is that a lot more Americans than we’d like to imagine are white nationalists at heart… [But also] like Al Gore in 2000, she ran into a buzz saw of adversarial reporting from the mainstream media, which treated relatively minor missteps as major scandals, and invented additional scandals out of thin air. Meanwhile, her opponent’s genuine scandals and various grotesqueries were downplayed or whitewashed

Fat-Shamer in Chief (“With little more than a month to go until the election, the fact that Donald Trump now finds himself in a very public fight with a beauty queen tells you everything you need to know about the sick soul of this man.”)

Jesse Richman: Will Virginia prove Trump’s undoing? (“The Social Science Research Center at Old Dominion University is releasing regional Life in Hampton Roads survey data this week that casts light on attitudes in Hampton Roads. Trump’s numbers in the seven cities surveyed suggest that this campaign may well underperform Romney’s losing bid in 2012. Romney won 40.8 percent of the two-party vote in Hampton Roads. These new survey results suggest Trump will win only 36.6 percent of the two-party vote here.”)

What happened to the democrats on the 9/11 law? I got an email from some democratic site asking to contact both Senator Warner and Kaine to support the bill. I am no expert, but I didn’t follow through and thought the democrats should not override the veto.

Today, before the start of Rosh Hashanah Sunday, Hillary Clinton released the following statement:

“As the High Holiday celebrations begin, I send my best wishes for a Shana Tova – a happy and healthy new year – to Jewish families and communities in the United States, Israel, and around the world.

“Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are a time for prayer and contemplation. They are a time to recall our past year, take a hard look at what we’ve done and what we’ve said, and ask how we can do better in the year ahead. They challenge us to do the difficult work of self-reflection—key to becoming a better family member, friend, and neighbor.

“Our country must do this work as a national community, too. All Americans should question whether we’re doing all that we can to work on “Tikkun Olam”—repairing the world. That means asking ourselves if we could be doing more to help those who are hungry or in need of shelter. If we could be doing more to make sure everyone has access to health care. And if we could be doing more to build a brighter future where no one is left out or left behind.

“It’s critical to ask these tough questions. And then, at the conclusion of the High Holidays, it’s even more important to get to work and answer them.

“Many of the complex challenges we face as a nation are daunting—but luckily, we don’t have to face them alone. We are stronger together, and if we commit to work in good faith with one another, surely we can build a better world for future generations.

“This year’s High Holidays are saddened by the passing of President Shimon Peres, a man whose life’s work exemplifies the notion of Tikkun Olam. Let us honor his legacy by continuing to strengthen the bonds between the American and Israeli people, and by never wavering in our quest for peace.

Following Vice Presidential Debate, Tim Kaine to Campaign in Pennsylvania

On Wednesday and Thursday, October 5 and 6, following the vice presidential debate on Tuesday evening, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine will campaign across Pennsylvania. At public Pennsylvania Democrats events in the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh areas, Kaine will lay out his and Hillary Clinton’s plans to create an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. Kaine will emphasize that he and Clinton are proposing an agenda that would make the biggest investment in good-paying jobs since World War II, while Donald Trump has consistently outsourced jobs and manufactured his Trump-branded products overseas, while stiffing workers and contractors at his properties here in the U.S.